In this episode:
We look at how the attitude we take towards our dreams changes our experience of them, and affects our relationship with our inner lives.
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Sources for quotes and more:
- "The psyche is indistinguishable from its manifestations. The psyche is the object of psychology, and — fatally enough — also its subject. There is no getting away from this fact.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
- S1 Ep. 20: Taking Dreams Seriously
- "I share all your prejudices against dream-interpretation as the quintessence of uncertainty and arbitrariness. .." ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
- "It is on the basis of theory, for instance, that I expect dreams to have a meaning. I cannot prove in every case that this is so.... But I have to make such an hypothesis in order to find courage to deal with dreams at all." ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
- The Peddler of Swaffham from 'English Fairy and Other Folk Tales.'
- “I must content myself wholly with the fact that the result means something to my patient and sets his life in motion again. I may allow myself only one criterion for the result of my labours: does it work?” ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
- “In many ways the journey seems to be a foolish gamble...” ~ Thomas Merton in 'New Seeds of Contemplation.'
- “The right way to wholeness is made up, unfortunately, of fateful detours and wrong turnings.” ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 12.'
- “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth...” ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 9ii.'
- “Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things.... A certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.” ~ William James in 'The Will to Believe.'
- “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us” ~ from
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